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ArticleScientific reports2016

Molecular basis of a novel renal amyloidosis due to N184K gelsolin variant.

Francesco Bonì, Mario Milani, Riccardo Porcari, Alberto Barbiroli, Stefano Ricagno, Matteo de Rosa

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Francesco BonìCNR Istituto di Biofisica, c/o Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Mario MilaniCNR Istituto di Biofisica, c/o Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Riccardo PorcariWolfson Drug Discovery Unit, Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins, University College London, London NW3 2PF, UK.
Alberto BarbiroliDipartimento di Scienze per gli Alimenti, la Nutrizione e l'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Stefano RicagnoDipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Matteo de RosaCNR Istituto di Biofisica, c/o Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
University of Milan · ITInstituto Biofisika · ESUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Telethon GEP15070
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations in gelsolin are responsible for a systemic amyloidosis first described in 1969. Until recently, the disease was associated with two substitutions of the same residue, leading to the loss of the calcium binding site. Novel interest arose in 2014 when the N184K variant of the protein was identified as the etiological agent of a novel kidney-localized amyloidosis. Here we provide a first rationale for N184K pathogenicity. We show that the mutation induces a destabilization of gelsolin second domain, without compromising its calcium binding capacity. X-ray data combined with molecular dynamics simulations demonstrates that the primary source of the destabilization is a loss of connectivity in proximity of the metal. Such rearrangement of the H-bond network does not have a major impact on the overall fold of the domain, nevertheless, it increases the flexibility of a stretch of the protein, which is consequently processed by furin protease. Overall our data suggest that the N184K variant is subjected to the same aberrant proteolytic events responsible for the formation of amyloidogenic fragments in the previously characterized mutants. At the same time our data suggest that a broader number of mutations, unrelated to the metal binding site, can lead to a pathogenic phenotype.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationAmyloidosisBinding SitesCalciumCrystallography, X-RayFurinGelsolinHumansHydrogen BondingKidneyMutant ProteinsMutationProtein DomainsProtein StabilityProteolysisTemperatureCalciumFurinGelsolinMutant Proteins

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PMID27633054
PMCPMC5025852
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